Kanji N1

屯: barracks, police station, camp

屯 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning barracks, police station, camp, written with 4 strokes. It is read トン (on) and たむろ (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 屯 (トン, ton) and 駐屯 (ちゅうとん, stationing).

屯

Meanings

  • barracks
  • police station
  • camp
  • ton
Strokes4
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1980 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • トン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • たむろ

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 屯

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 屯トン

    ton (esp. a metric ton, i.e. 1000 kg); tonne

    JLPT N3
  • 駐屯ちゅうとん

    stationing (troops); garrisoning

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.